Xin Liu

Xin Liu is an artist and engineer developing Cosmic Metabolism, a conceptual and material framework examining the transformation, circulation and degradation of matter across technological and planetary systems. Her practice works within the entropic aftermath of scientific and industrial ambition, foregrounding exhaust as a generative state: rocket fragments falling back to Earth; cryogenic vessels suspending matter; genomic code rendered as unreadable scripture; plastics dissolving under enzymatic digestion; satellites logging their own obsolescence.

Liu has held research and artistic positions at the SETI Institute, the MIT Media Lab and Cornell Tech. She currently leads creative and strategy at Episteme, a new science research institute. Liu has been commissioned by Hyundai Artlab, BMW Culture Group, M+ Museum, Google Arts & Culture, MAXmachina and Ars Electronica, and exhibited at the Shanghai Biennale, Thailand Biennale, MoMA PS1, MAXXI and the Sundance Film Festival. Her honours include the Henry Moore Foundation Artist Award, the K11 Artist Prize, and Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia.